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  • Title: Methionine requirement of channel catfish fed soybean meal-corn-based diets.
    Author: Cai Y, Burtle GJ.
    Journal: J Anim Sci; 1996 Mar; 74(3):514-21. PubMed ID: 8707704.
    Abstract:
    A soybean meal-corn-based diet was used to determine dietary methionine (Met) required by 14-g channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) in a 42-d experiment at 25 degrees C. The basal diet with balanced limiting amino acids relative to the catfish whole-body amino acid profile contained 277 g of CP, 3.6 g of Met, 4.0 g of cystine (Cys), and 10 MJ of DE/kg of DM. DL-Methionine was added to the basal diet from 0 to 12.0 g/kg in 2-g intervals at the expense of L-glutamic acid to produce seven isonitrogenous and isocaloric diets. A reference diet contained 331 g of CP, 8 g of Met, 5 g of Cys, and 10 MJ of DE/kg of DM (included 8% fish meal). Seven graded Met levels resulted in quadratic responses (P < .01) of weight gain, specific growth rate, feed or GE intake, feed or energy efficiency, protein or energy retention, protein efficiency ratio, and apparent net protein or energy utilization. Channel catfish required 9.4 g of Met/kg of DM (34.1 g/kg of CP) with a total 11.3 g/kg of calculated digestible sulfur-containing amino acids based on multiple regression dose-response models or 270 mg of Met/kg of fish per day based on a broken-line response of protein gain to Met intake. At the adequate Met level, catfish with the lowest (P < .05) liver lipids showed feed intake and protein or energy utilization efficiency similar (P > .05) to that of catfish fed the reference diet. Catfish fed all-plant-protein diets require more dietary methionine than previously reported. Catfish fed corn-soybean meal diets fortified adequately with methionine result in performance that approaches that of fish fed a fish meal-based diet.
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